The Perfect Guest at a Dinner Party

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Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan

Updated March 20, 2013 7:23 p.m. ET

A guest at a dinner party has an important role. "The perfect dinner guest should be gracious and interested in the people around him or her," says Andrew Zimmern, host and creator of Travel Channel's "Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern," who has been a dinner guest in the homes of royalty, tribal chiefs and average families as part of his shows.

The easiest way to make sure the evening goes well is to enter a dinner party knowing something about the hosts and the guests. His approach is "I want...